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There looked like no way back for John Dolan, all-in with 
on a 
board against Greg Mueller's 
but the 
turn and 
river made an unlikely straight giving Dolan a full double up.
"See," sighed Mueller, "That's how November Niners run..."
Nick Schulman raised to 4,800 from middle position and Bojan Gledovic called from the next seat. Action then folded over to Marius Torbergsen in the big blind and he moved all in for 22,700. Schulman thought for a bit and then reraised to 36,000. Gledovic paused and then shoved all in. Schulman insta-mucked and Gledovic tabled two red aces. His 
was up against the 
for Torbergsen.
The board ran out 
and Torbergsen hit the rail. Gledovic added even more chips and could be our overnight chip leader when things our done. We'll find out shortly.
Play is now over for the day with 66 players showing on the board. The chip leader, by a mere 900 chips, is Viktor Blom who sits with a huge (nearly three times the average) 443,200 just 900 chips ahead of Serbian Bojan Gledovic's 442,300.
Today was probably the highest quality field that poker will see all year, usually at a tournament, there will be a particular table and the reporters will go, "Oh that table looks very tough."
Today however, there was none of that, every table was incredibly tough with little or no spots that were easy. Truly, it was a case of the best players rising to the top and there was no surprises when Phil Ivey filled the top spot for most of the day. Although he dropped off towards the end, Ivey finished the day still near the top with 289,300 and among the chip leaders.
Reigning champion Barry Shulman was eliminated today and with the elimination too of John Juanda, ensures that a brand new champion will be crowned on Tuesday. Still in the hunt also are Nick Schulman, Nicolas Levi, Arnaud Mattern and Daniel Negreanu, the last of these hoping to make his 3rd successive WSOPE Main Event final table.
Tomorrow the tournament will play down through the bubble to its' final 27 players, before Monday will see these survivors wittled down to a final table.
Who will be there? You'll have to join us tomorrow at 12pm local time to find out!
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
443,200 | |
|
442,300 | |
|
372,500 | |
|
||
|
344,000 | |
|
309,300 | |
|
||
|
289,300 | |
|
||
|
280,900 | |
|
||
|
272,300 | |
|
269,000 | |
|
266,100 | |
|
265,700 | |
|
257,700 | |
|
|
||
|
222,900 | |
|
|
||
|
214,800 | |
|
207,000 | |
|
||
|
197,200 | |
|
195,000 | |
|
|
||
|
190,000 | |
|
||
|
176,900 | |
|
175,300 | |
|
|
||
|
|
173,600 | |
|
169,800 | |
|
|
||
|
168,000 | |
|
||
|
166,700 | |
|
166,200 | |
|
|
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Table 13
Seat 1: John Eames (152000)
Seat 2: David Baker (207000)
Seat 3: Vincent Chahley (122400)
Seat 4: JP Kelly (84900)
Seat 5: Rudy Blondeau (166700)
Seat 6: Huck Seed (147600)
Seat 7: Barry Greenstein (175300)
Seat 8: Thomas Bichon (257700)
Seat 9: James Bord (195000)
Table 14
Seat 1: Mark Thurgood (37000)
Seat 2: Patrik Selin (173600)
Seat 3: Almira Scripchenko (156400)
Seat 4: Ronald Lee (101800)
Seat 5: Andrew Pantling (344000)
Seat 6: Roland de Wolfe (166200)
Seat 7: John Conroy (69800)
Seat 8: Barbara Martinez (30300)
Seat 9: Dan Shak (214800)
Table 21
Seat 1: Andy Frankenberger (110300)
Seat 2: Matt Stout (80500)
Seat 3: Clint Coffee (110700)
Seat 4: Bryn Kenney (127800)
Seat 5: Barny Boatman (110300)
Seat 6: Nick Schulman (190000)
Seat 7: Phil Ivey (289300)
Seat 8: Bojan Gledovic (442300)
Seat 9: --empty--
Table 22
Seat 1: Freddy Deeb (107300)
Seat 2: Adrian Passfield (77500)
Seat 3: Quinn Do (144000)
Seat 4: Anthony Newman (138200)
Seat 5: Rob Akery (176900)
Seat 6: Nicolas Levi (272300)
Seat 7: James Mitchell (115100)
Seat 8: Viktor Blom (443200)
Seat 9: --empty--
Table 23
Seat 1: Paul Byrne (59300)
Seat 2: Fabrizio Baldassari (164800)
Seat 3: Alex Keating (169800)
Seat 4: Remy Biechel (130400)
Seat 5: Simon Persson (37200)
Seat 6: Jani Sointula (54500)
Seat 7: Tyron Krost (97500)
Seat 8: Adam Fletcher (115400)
Seat 9: --empty--
Table 24
Seat 1: Dan Fleyshman (269000)
Seat 2: Darren Woods (372500)
Seat 3: Greg Mueller (121200)
Seat 4: Daniel Negreanu (142800)
Seat 5: David Peters (309300)
Seat 6: Michael Browne (63100)
Seat 7: Michael Benvenuti (48400)
Seat 8: Markus Golser (132600)
Seat 9: --empty--
Table 25
Seat 1: Guy Gorelik (136600)
Seat 2: Marc Inizan (70600)
Seat 3: Brian Powell (266100)
Seat 4: Eli Elezra (116900)
Seat 5: Daniel Steinberg (265700)
Seat 6: John Dolan (73200)
Seat 7: Hoi Cheung (101600)
Seat 8: Magnus Persson (197200)
Seat 9: --empty--
Table 26
Seat 1: Arnaud Mattern (280900)
Seat 2: Jean Paul Seatelli (61200)
Seat 3: Nam Le (91500)
Seat 4: Yevgeniy Timoshenko (222900)
Seat 5: Steven van Zadelhoff (42400)
Seat 6: Hoyt Corkins (158400)
Seat 7: Matthew Waxman (146500)
Seat 8: Anton Wigg (168000)
Seat 9: --empty--
Event #5: £10,350 WSOPE Championship No-Limit Hold'em
Day 2 Completed
